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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1905
Page
2
An advertisement touts Shoop Restorative as a nerve centered remedy to end sleeplessness fatigue and nervous wear. It claims lasting improvement by strengthening the automatic nerves behind heart digestion liver and kidneys and offers free booklets and a mail order, with bottles sold at drug stores.
In ByeLostok Poland District Chief of Police Jeletschin was shot and killed while trying to disperse a crowd of workmen gathered outside the town. The incident occurred today March 6.
March 6. More than half the workmen in St. Petersburg are out on strike again. The Schidlovski Mixed Commission is paralyzed by workers refusing to join a conference with employers. N. Schidlowski has effectively halted efforts to settle the dispute on the proposed basis.
Warsaw reports a large number of beggars in city outskirts making routes unsafe for peasants and leading to robberies after nightfall. A bishop's pastoral letter urged strikers to return to work and ignore agitators. The Polish Socialist party issued a manifesto accusing authorities of inciting anti Jewish sentiment.
Major-General MacArthur will leave Tokyo on March 9 with aides Captain Parker West and Captain John Pershing to serve as military observers with the Japanese armies at the front.
March 6 Mukden reports describe a brutal battlefield where Chinese carts bear Russian wounded under a storm of shell and rifle fire. The front line holds with Russians and Japanese dead and wounded stacked near the hill with the tower as both sides fight to control the position.
Field Marshal Oyama’s left center thrusts threaten the Russian main army as Kuropatkin concentrates heavy losses. Reports say Russian casualties reach 93,500 with Japanese losses around 40,000. The turning movement from the Hun and Yao rivers shifts the balance as Nogi’s veterans strike the Russian right.
Washington reports officers returning from Manchuria indicate rifles’ advancing effectiveness may force daylight assaults to be abandoned in favor of night fighting. General Crozier argues bayonets must remain a primary weapon and criticizes the red bayonet as ineffective for hand to hand combat.
Cossacks dispersed an outdoor meeting in Batoum Caucasia killing or wounding seven men and one woman as they chased the audience into house courts.
An old ad claims Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day with a money back guarantee. The box bears KE. W rove’s signature and is priced at 25 cents.
William J. Whalen of Roxbury claimed a well dressed man, about 35, 5 feet 10, 160 pounds, with a black hat and light overcoat, led him to believe he had charges at the R H White Co stables and would secure him a hostler job for a fee before vanishing with $105 near the Ames Building. He reported to Station 2 before noon.
The full bench of the Supreme Court dismissed Hiram B. Campbell's petition for mandamus against the Superior Court justices. Campbell sought to force the court to hear an equity case against Carpenter Morton Company and others after being adjudged in contempt. An injunction barred Campbell from manufacturing using or selling Campbell's varnish stain, which he refused to obey.
In Superior Court Judge Harris presiding, Charles E. Lewis as administrator of his deceased brother Fred Lewis won a verdict of 5639 against Brotherhood Insurance Company. Fred Lewis drowned in a Charles River canoe. he held a $5000 policy claimed unpaid due to lack of eye witnesses. Court ordered full policy value plus interest.
The Boston police have been asked to locate Leonard M. Crocker a Worcester fireman wanted by Worcester police on a larceny charge. He vanished while in fireman uniform.
In the third jury session of the Superior Court yesterday afternoon Bridget Barrett received $1500 for personal injuries and her husband Patrick Barrett got $750 for loss of her services in a suit against the Elevated railroad.
Three Cambridge children aged 12 8 and 5 climbed from their bedchamber in Cambridgeport dressed in darkness to reach Boston before dawn to visit their ill father William Thomas who works for the Boston and Maine railroad. They were assisted by Central square police officer Big John Neilan at Hunt's drug store. The story outlines the children's plan to surprise their father who rooms in Boston and works nights. their guardians are respected Cambridge residents.
The March term divorce hearings open in Suffolk County with Judge Bond presiding. The crowd hears decrees nisi for multiple couples as wives accuse desertion, drink, gambling, and abuse. Cases include Harry Oldfield v Annie Oldfield, Julia Hamerson v Charles W, and Adela Andrews v Edward C, among others.
By order of the Board of Police yesterday afternoon Lieutenant Charles T. Denton of Division 16 was moved to Division 7 and Lieutenant James E. Sargent of Division 7 moved to Division 16. The transfers take effect at 5 45 p m roll call Tuesday and stem from the personal requests of both officers.
Three hundred couples attended the Riverside Boat Club ball in Cambridge last night. The floor director was James Culhane with assistant Frank Murphy aids, and a list of many named volunteers supported the event.
About 500 members from across the state attended the 50th anniversary of the Dutcher Orden Harugari at Odd Fellows Hall. Toastmaster Nathan Schloss introduced Lt Governor Curtis Guild and other officials while a memorial address for deceased members was read by Past Grand President Theodore Lange. The celebration included a reception, banquet, and dance with floor director Henry C. Young and a committee led by Catherina Reusch and others.
New Haven Conn March 6 It was expected that the formal ratification by President Mellen of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad of the agreement alleged to have been reached by the engineers and firemen would be announced this afternoon or evening but a hitch caused postponement of the meeting between the president of the company and its employees representatives
Rev. Alexander Mann D D of Grace Church Orange New Jersey has been unanimously chosen for the Trinity Church Copley square rectorship. Born in Geneva New York he is about 40 with a large Newark diocese connection and 18 years in Orange as rector. He is archdeacon of Newark and has a large parish, with over 659 communicants. The selection marks the twelfth clergyman to hold the post.
The labor backed measure legalizing picketing moves to a Senate vote today after an advance report from the labor committee. A House substitute may be offered, and Representative Weeks proposes election by one representative for every 90 striking workers. Records of strikers kept by the city or town police chief, who must sign credentials along with labor leaders.
The Metal Polishers Platers and Buffers Union reported that of 76 Boston shops employing metal polishers, platers and buffers, all but 11 are unionized. An open meeting will invite non union platers and buffers to organize. Nearly all shops are equipped with dust blowers on buffing lathes as required by law. Four applicants were admitted.
A mass meeting of team drivers in Chelsea last night highlighted a slate of union activities across Boston. Delegates were elected to state and city bodies, headquarters were announced, and union notices urged member participation and sick benefits.
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